Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris.
Larry Wall
I finally found a definition for "middleware". "Middleware" is the software nobody wants to pay for.
Chris Stone
Every program is a part of some other program and rarely fits.
Alan J. Perlis
Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
Alan Kay
Java is to JavaScript what Car is to Carpet.
Chris Heilmann
If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves upon execution.
Robert Sewell
Giving up on assembly language was the apple in our Garden of Eden: Languages whose use squanders machine cycles are sinful. The LISP machine now permits LISP programmers to abandon bra and fig-leaf.
Alan J. Perlis
There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult.
C.A.R. Hoare.
There's a fine line between being on the leading edge and being in the lunatic fringe.
Frank Armstrong
I invented the term Object-Oriented, and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
Alan Kay